About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

Tuesday, October 02, 2007

October 2......

October 2 is the 275th (276th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 90 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Faith "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought." — Basho

Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Judicial Activism "Judicial activism results from the enlistment of judges on one side of the culture war in every western nation. Despite denials by some that any such conflict exists, the culture war is an obtrusive fact. It is a struggle between the cultural or liberal left and the great mass of citizens who, left to their own devices, tend to be traditionalists. The courts are enacting the agendas of the culture left. There is a certain embarrassment in choosing a name for this group. I will sometimes refer to these faux intellectuals as the "New Class," . . . [which] consists of print and electronic journalists; academics at all levels; denizens of Hollywood; mainline clergy and church bureaucracies; personnel of museums, galleries, and philanthropic foundations; radical environmentalists; and activist groups for a multiplicity of single causes.

It is able to exercise influence in many ways, but when cultural and social issues become sufficiently clear, the intellectual class loses elections. It is, therefore, essential that the cultural left find a way to avoid the verdict of the ballot box. Constitutional courts provide the necessary means to outflank majorities and nullify their votes. The judiciary is the liberals' weapon of choice. Democracy and the rule of law are undermined while the culture is altered in ways the electorate would never choose." — Robert Bork, Coercing Virtue, Washington D.C.: The Aei Press, 2003, pp. 5-6 {Even in the title to this book, Bork tacitly admits the left is doing right or virtuous things. He is a bitter rejected Reagan Supreme Court nominee, who resents the fact he was not able to invoke his own brand of judicial activism on the Court, by claiming the majority must always rule even when wrong.}

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened what where I was flying made what I was doing spying." — Francis Gary Power, reconnaissance pilot {shot down and} captured by the Soviets {during the Eisenhower administration}

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY

Tutulemma: Solar Eclipse Analemma

Credit & Copyright: Tunc Tezel and Cenk E. TezelClick picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation

● 1535 - First complete English translation of the Bible printed in Zurich. If English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for America.

● 1535 - Jacques Cartier discovers Montreal, Quebec.

● 1552 - Conquest of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible.

● 1780 - John André, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War, is hanged as a spy by American forces.

● 1789 - George Washington transmits the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification.

● 1800 - Birth of Nat Turner, leader of the only effective, sustained slave revolt (August 1831) in U.S. history. Spreading terror throughout the white South, his action set off a new wave of oppressive legislation by whites prohibiting the education, movement, and assembly of slaves.

● 1803 - Sam Adams, American patriot brewer, dies, Boston. A major leader and activist in the American Revolution, he led protest against the Stamp Act, founded the Sons of Liberty, and was the principal organizer of the Boston Tea Party, member of the Continental Congress, signer of the Declaration of Independence.

● 1809 - Birth of (Louis-) Charles Delescluze. French revolutionary figure involved in the uprisings of 1830 and 1848; an important leader in the Paris Commune (1871).

● 1835 - The Texas Revolution begins with the Battle of Gonzales: Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.

● 1836 - The British naturalist Charles Darwin returns to Falmouth, England, aboard the HMS Beagle, ending a five-year surveying expedition of the southern Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Visiting such diverse places as Brazil, the Galapagos Islands, and New Zealand, Darwin acquired an intimate knowledge of the flora, fauna, wildlife, and geology of many lands. This information is invaluable in the development of his theory of evolution, first put forth in his groundbreaking scientific work of 1859, The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

● 1851 - The pasilalinic-sympathetic compass is demonstrated but proves to be a fake.

● 1883 - Birth of Louis Laurent (1883-1972), Paris. Libertarian militant and revolutionary trade unionist, member of the Revolutionary Anarchist Union and the Anarchist Federation of Languedoc in the 30s. Worked with league of conscientious objectors and the CGT-SR (revolutionary trade union).

● 1889 - In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West.

● 1919 - US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed. {His wife would essentially take over everyday duties of the president. It is my belief that Nancy Reagan did the same thing some time in the 1980's.}

● 1924 - Twenty-four Japanese radicals and trade unionists bayoneted to death near Tokyo.

● 1924 - The Geneva Protocol is adopted as a means to strengthen the League of Nations. {Japan was a not party to the protocol.}

● 1928 - The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, was founded by Saint Josemaría Escrivá.

● 1944 - Poland - The 63-day Warsaw revolt against Nazi occupation is finally crushed by German forces, at the cost of 250,000 Polish lives. Organized by Polish General Tadeusz Bor-Komorowski on August 1 -- the same day the Red Army reached the Vistula River -- the uprising was a Polish attempt to assist in the Allied liberation of their country. But Stalin, knowing Soviet capture of Poland was a given, delayed his army's advance while Nazis purged Polish society of its militant elements. The Soviet army lurked along Warsaw's borders during the two-month ordeal, and Stalin strongly discouraged any outside assistance to the Polish rebels from the Western allies.

● 1968 - Tlatelolco Massacre. At the Plaza of Three Cultures, after nine weeks of student strikes, the Mexican Army ambushes some 15,000 protesting students, killing close to 300 and arresting several thousand.

● 1970 - Environmental Protection Agency established.

● 1970 - A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado killing 31 people.

● 1985 - National Center of Health reports that suicide rate on Wind River Reservation in Wyoming is almost 20 times higher than national average.

● 1985 - Actor Rock Hudson dies of AIDS. A watershed event in helping the American public realize the scope of the AIDS epidemic, which the Reagan Administration had completely ignored.

● 1986 - Congress overrides Pres. Reagan's veto and passes South African sanctions. This is a culmination of efforts by Trans-Africa's Randall Robinson, Rep. Mickey Leland, and others, begun almost two years earlier with Robinson's arrest in front of the South African Embassy in Washington, DC. {The Dark Prince, Darth Cheney, is in Congress actively trying to stop the sanctions.}

● 2006 - Five school girls are murdered by Charles Carl Roberts in a shooting at an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania before Roberts commits suicide. {While not Amish himself, he knew the victims, he was their milk delivery man.}

● 2007 - President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea walks across the Military Demarcation Line into North Korea on his way to the second Inter-Korean Summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.

BIRTHS

● 1452 - King Richard III of England (d. 1485)

● 1538 - Saint Charles Borromeo, Italian cardinal (d. 1584)

● 1644 - François-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (d. 1724)

● 1722 - Leopold Widhalm, Austrian luthier (d. 1776)

● 1737 - Francis Hopkinson, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (d. 1791)

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Life long Liberal. Actually saw JFK on campaign trail. Defining moment of my life was the assassination of JFK. First presidential election I participated in was knocking on doors for McGovern, have been tilting at windmills ever since.